This book is part of a series that started with the flagshipSnakes in the Ganga: Breaking India 2.0 in September 2022. Thepresent volume focuses on the American project led by HarvardUniversity to dismantle the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)and other institutions of excellence in India, by claiming thatthey propagate structural casteism.While it is beyond the scope of this book to discuss in detailMarxism, Postmodernism and other European intellectualmovements of the last 150 years, the fact is that thesemovements have influenced what has culminated in this currentbattle against the IITs. Simply put, we will show that:The IITs are under attack.
- There are legal implications of this attack. It has severeconsequences for the IITs, its students and faculty, India,and engineering education.
- The consequences of this attack will follow the IIT engineerand other tech professionals to their workplace anywherein the world.
- Harvard’s Woke machinery is behind this attack and weneed to understand the sophistication that backs it.
- Our evidence-based rebuttal gives IITians and otherengineers the toolkit to tackle false accusations of beingcasteist bigots.
We end with a call to action by IITians and other stakeholders.Introduction Background The dismantling of Indian educational institutions began over a decade ago with some innocent seeming work on culturalcapital done by a French think tank in New Delhi in partnershipwith the Delhi School of Economics (DSE). Satish Deshpande,professor of sociology at the DSE, wrote a pivotal paper thatwas published in the Economic & Political Weekly in 2013. Thisprovided the meta-narrative that the general category in India’sreservation system is a euphemism for upper castes’ category,and the need to dismantle the education system. By 2019,Ajantha Subramanian, professor of anthropology and SouthAsian Studies at Harvard University, became the dismantler-inchief leading this effort.
